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Israeli military carries out air strikes near Syrian presidential palace in Damascus
Israel’s military said it attacked a target near the presidential palace in the Syrian capital Damascus, confirming an earlier report by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The military said Israeli warplanes attacked “the area near” Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s palace in the capital.
“This is a clear message to the Syrian regime: We will not allow [Syrian] forces to deploy south of Damascus or any threat to the Druze community,” Netanyahu said in a joint statement with Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz.
The air strikes mark the second time Israel has struck Syria in as many days, following through on a promise to defend the minority Druze after dozens of people were killed in two days of sectarian clashes south of Damascus.
Clashes with the Druze broke out around midnight on Monday after an audio clip circulated on social media of a man criticising Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. The audio was attributed to a Druze scholar. But the scholar, Marwan Kiwan, said in a video posted on social media that he was not responsible for the audio, which angered many Sunni Muslims.
Syria says Israeli attack near presidential palace is ‘a dangerous escalation’
Syria’s presidency has said in a statement that an Israeli air raid near the presidential palace in Damascus was a “dangerous escalation”.
Israel’s military launched air attacks near Syria’s presidential palace in Damascus early this morning after accusing the Syrian authorities of failing to protect the country’s Druze minority from sectarian violence.
The attack was the second of its kind by Israel this week and is seen as sending a strong message to Syria’s transitional government led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz had said in a joint statement that the attack was “a clear message to the Syrian regime: We will not allow (Syrian) forces to deploy south of Damascus or any threat to the Druze community.”
‘Cynicism’ from Druze leaders as Israel launches new attack on Syria
The Israeli shelling hit in the vicinity of the presidential palace. The Israelis are calling it a warning shot, saying that the Syrian government needs to protect the Druze community.
But that’s actually been met with cynicism from senior Druze leaders, saying they actually don’t need Israel’s to help protect us, we can do this on our own, we are Syrians and we are going to deal with this in-house.
In Israel, the Druze community is very much discriminated against by the Israeli government. Their villages have been destroyed inside Israel to make way for Jewish settlements. So, it’s not like anybody is seeing Netanyahu’s words as now being the champion of the Druze leadership.
We have a new statement from the president’s office which strongly condemns the shelling by the Israelis, which constitutes a dangerous escalation of the state and its institution. Intense negotiations have been taking place between the Syrian Druze community and the government and this has now led to a calming of tensions.
Nothing but lies as excuses to keep Syria in disarray.
Four killed in Israeli air strike on southern Syria
At least four people have been in killed as a result of “Israeli aggression” in Syria’s Druze-majority Sweida governorate, Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reported.
It cited the Sweida governorate as saying that an Israeli military aircraft launched a strike targeting four people in the town of Kanaker.
